Circle text

Greetings,

Since I don't have Express Tools I was wondering if there is a lisp program to put text on a circle. Similiar to Express Tools, whereas it is a complete line of text and not individual letters.

Thanks for your consideration,

Bill

If you have the full version of AutoCAD 2008 why didn't you load Express Tools?

Lee Mac wrote a program which I believe will allow the user to place text along a curve. Try doing a search for it. If I get a chance I too shall try to find it.

If I am mistaken then the answer to your question is "Yes, there are lisps routines that will do what you want."

Happy Columbus Day a few days late.

http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/multiline-text/dynamic-text-curve-align

Since I don't have Express Tools I was wondering if there is a lisp program to put text on a circle. Similiar to Express Tools, whereas it is a complete line of text and not individual letters.

A text entity seems to be written in a straight line, and there does not seem to be a process where the entity can be curved. The Express Tools lisp breaks the text into individual characters which then are arranged along a circular alignment (as you have observed). I haven't seen one yet where the text is kept as a complete entity.

Perhaps someone knows different

I don't think it's possible through Lisp - at least not keeping it as one single entity. The express tools uses an ARX which creates a new object type called ARCALIGNEDTEXT which works similarly to Vertical ACads (e.g. ACA) special purpose objects - e.g. ACA's wall type. It's also similar to what you get when you create a multiline - i.e. it becomes a Proxy object if you don't have that ARX installed.

You may find a lisp turning the separate text "characters" into a block / group so you can select it as if it's one object though. But then editing it becomes a pain.

Thank you one and all. I will dig a little deeper into this subject.

Remax the reason I don't have express tools is that the powers to be who installed AutoCAD neglected to install.

Apparently they figured it wasn't important.

Blessed are they that run around in circles for they shall be called big wheels.

Regards,

ReMark